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Jarvmeister
Building a fire......

Registered: May 2001
Location: Trancentral
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Re: Re: Re: Re: I don't get funniness.
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Bollocks. In Eng-er-land if you say asian in the conversational sense, as SYS-J pointed out, you are generally talking about indian, pakistani, or similar. Technically, as a definition it should also include Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, etc, but at least colloquially in england, I had NEVER heard the term "asian" applied to people of oriental origin until I came here to live in the USA, where the other countries (such as india and pakistan) are not included in the colloquial/conversational definition of "asian".
When someone here says the club is full of asian washers, I don't think of indians - do you?
It's the same thing just in reverse here - a bad definition of the word asian.
I thought this thing was weird growing up because asia is a ridiculously large geographical area including many different races/countries. |
I stand corrected:
Asian noun (from the Cambridge Dictionary)
/ˈeɪ.ʒən/ n [C]
• someone who comes from the continent of Asia, or a member of a race originally from Asia
• in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, someone from China, Japan or countries near them
• in the UK, someone from India, Pakistan or countries near them
However, I and my circle of friends identify Asians primarilty as I've already highlighted.
If we're talking about Indians then we use the term Indian.
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Feb-05-2010 19:03
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daft_max
tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2008
Location: Perth
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the fuck is this?
Asia > Middle East, India, China, Japan, FUCKING HALF OF RUSSIA.
Its a big ass continent.. Call them whatver you like, chinks, brown poo, whatever.. but calling a certain race "asian" and then leaving out half the population as "not what i usually describe as asian" is beyond retarded
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Feb-06-2010 04:07
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